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Thursday, August 9, 1973

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AIRPORT SECURITY

Note to Editors:

The Airport Security Committee has advised

the Director of Civil Aviation that access to the

aircraft parking apron should be restricted only

to those people who are essential to the operation of aircraft, carriage of freight, passengers and

mail, etc., and to no others. This recommendation

has been accepted.

It follows from this that press photographers will no longer be allowed onto the tarmac or in any

other restricted areas of Kai Tak Airport, and the

two G.I.S. officers who have been posted to Kai Tak

will now be withdrawn.

Some committee members of the Hong Kong

Journalist Association have already been informed

of this decision and the reasons for it have been

explained to them. Any inconvenience this may cause

to journalists is much regretted but the whole question

of airport security is, of course, of paramount importance.

Special arrangements will, of course, be made

for special circumstances, but as a general rule it

will be no longer possible for photographers to cover

arrivals or departures in any restricted part of the

airport.

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